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18 November 2003
2003/9
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LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2003 - PROGRAMME DETAILS
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LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2003
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Opening Plenary Session (27 November 2003)
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9:00am Professor David Barker (Dean of the Faculty of Law,
University of Technology, Sydney) - Welcome to the
Conference
9:15am The Hon A M Gleeson AC (Chief Justice of the High Court
of Australia) - Opening of Conference and launch of the
complete High Court of Australia decisions database 1903-
2003
9:30am Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) -
Free Access to Law in Developing Countries
Parallel 1A Global Law Systems on the Internet: Language, Culture,
Cooperation
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10:00am Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Bobson Coulibaly and Francois Viens
(LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - Droit
Francophone and Access to Law in the French-Speaking
World: A Renewed Strategy
10:25am Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung
(AustLII) - WorldLII's 5 Strategies to Advance Global
Free Access
10:50am Morning Tea
11:15am Kevin K H Pun and Vivien Chan (HKLII, University of Hong
Kong) - Processing Legal Documents in the Chinese-
Speaking World: HKLII's Experience
11:40pm Abdul Paliwala (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) -
Law and the Digital Divide
Parallel 1B Developing Countries Law Online: The Pacific
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12:05pm Dennis Yamase (Supreme Court of the Federated States of
Micronesia) - The Law of the Federated States of
Micronesia: How to Sustain It?
12:30pm Panel Session - New Zealand and New Guinea: Problem
cases of the Pacific? (Chair: Donna Buckingham; Geoff
Lawn; Katrine Evans; Tim Arnold-Moore; Graham Greenleaf)
12:55pm Lunch
Parallel 1C Developing Countries Law Online: Asia
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2:00pm Daniel Adler (Cambodian Legal Education Center, Phnomh
Penh, Cambodia) - Access to Legal Information in
Cambodia: Initial Steps, Future Possibilities
2:25pm Leo Faraytody (Hukumonline, Indonesia) - Hukumonline and
Indonesian Developments
2:50pm Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) -
Possibility of Translated Legal Database for Asian
Countries
3:15pm Afternoon Tea
Parallel 1D Developing Countries Law Online: Africa
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3:35pm John Montgomery (WITS University, South Africa) -
Prospects for a Southern African Legal Information
Institute
4:00pm Bobson Coulibaly and Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM,
University of Montreal, Canada) - JuriBurkina: The
Implementation of a LII in Burkina Faso
4:25pm Omwanza Ombati (Ahmednasir Abdikadir & Co, Kenya) -
Access to Legal Information: Still a Pipe Dream for
Kenya?
Parallel 1E IP and Other Legal Issues in Access to Law
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4:50pm Matthew Hall (Phillips Fox) - Legal Information and the
Review of the Digital Agenda Act
5:15pm Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney) -
Web Site Access: Can Owners of Sites Control How Others
Use the Site?
5:40pm Close Day 1 Sessions
7:00pm Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention
Centre, Darling Harbour
Parallel 2A Commercial Legal Publishing on the Web: Difficulties
and Opportunities
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10:00am Murray Finlayson (CCH) - Commercial Publishing via the
Web: Survival or Maturity?
Parallel 2B Courts via Internet: Access and Efficiency
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10:20am Arthur Hoyle (University of Canberra) - National Court
of the Future Project
10:50am Morning Tea
11:15am Tony Newman SM (South Australian Courts) - Magistrates
Benchbook: The Use of Intranet to Access Frequently Used
Information
11:40pm Sandra Potter (Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for CLE, Victoria
University) - Use of the Internet in the Courtroom
12:05pm Andrew Cannon (Magistrates Court, South Australia) -
Policies to Control Electronic Access to Court Databases
12:30pm Frederic Pelletier (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Protecting
Identities in Published Case Law: A Canadian Approach
12:55pm Lunch
Parallel 2C Knowledge-based Legal Applications
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2:00pm Andrew Stranieri (JustSys Pty Ltd) - Integrating
Intelligent Systems for Refugee Law
2:25pm Kate Booth and Elizabeth Broderick (Blake Dawson
Waldron) - Web-based Legal Expert Systems: Virtual
Lawyers
2:50pm Andrew Davis and Jamie Wodetzki (Speedlegal) - A Smarter
Way to Draft Documents
3:15pm Afternoon Tea
Parallel 2D Law Office Internet Applications
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3:35pm Damien Piper (Gilbert & Tobin) - Do Weblogs have a Place
in Legal Practice?
4:00pm Chrissy Burns (Blake Dawson Waldron) - What do Clients
Want from Knowledge Management?
4:25pm Kathryn Waugh (Jerrard & Stuk Lawyers) - Six Degrees of
Separation: Creating a Knowledge Bank of Useful Internet
Resources
4:50pm Michael Marks (Secure Deal eXchange) - The Lawyer's
Mission: To Maximise Client Satisfaction and Legal
Efficiency - But is Email Good Enough?
5:15pm Close Day 1 Sessions
7:00pm Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention
Centre, Darling Harbour
Plenary Session (28 November 2003)
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9:00am Justice Ruth McColl (New South Wales Court of Appeal) -
IT in the Courtroom from Both Sides of the Bench
9:30am Tim Arnold-Moore (RMIT) - XML and Legislation
Parallel 3A Improving Caselaw and Retrieval Techniques
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10:00am Ernst Perpignand (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Devising an
XML DTD for Canadian Cases
10:25am Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII) - AustLII and
WorldLII's Automated Search Facilities
10:50am Morning Tea
11:15am Marc-Andre Morissette (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Using
Advances in Information Retrieval to Reduce Information
Overload
Parallel 3B Improving Legislation Online (1)
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11:40am Geoff Lawn (Office of Parliamentary Counsel, New
Zealand) - Improving Public Access to Legislation: The
New Zealand Experience
12:05pm Armin Wittfoth, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and
Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) - Can One Size Fit All:
AustLII's Point-in-time Legislation Project?
12:30pm Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown
Parallel 3C Improving Legislation Online (2)
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2:00pm Peter Todd (Department of Natural Resources & Mines,
Queensland) - Synchronising Law and Maps: A Web Based
Solution
2:25pm Panel Session - What next in online legislation? (Chair:
Michael Rubacki (NSWPCO); Geoff Lawn (NZ), Tim Arnold-
Moore (RMIT))
Parallel 3D International & Comparative Law Online Resources
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2:50pm Alan Fewster (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade),
Madeleine Davis, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and
Joseph Kwok (AustLII) - The Australian Treaties Library
1900-2003: The '5th Pillar' of Treaties Reform
3:15pm Takato Natsui (Faculty of Law, Meiji University, Japan)
- Issues Arising from Free Access to Legal Information:
A Japanese Perspective
3:40pm Afternoon Tea
4:00pm Closing Plenary Session - The Hon JJ Spigelman AC (Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW) - The Role of
Internet Publication of Court Decisions in Open Justice
5:00pm Close Day 2 Sessions
Parallel 4A Legal Education via Internet
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10:00am Bill Willesee (Curtin University) - Can a Computer Grade
an Internet Uploaded Law Essay? [Short]
10:20am Cristina Libro and Katherine Mulcahy (College of Law,
Sydney) - Producing Competent Lawyers: Merging Education
Technology with Web Based Resources [Short]
10:40am Morning Tea
11:05am Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney) -
Teaching Using Online Legal Resources: Accessing or
Creating [Short]
11:25am Tim Houweling (Edith Cowan University) - How the
Internet has Changed the Way Law is Taught [Short]
11:45am Terry Hutchinson and Natalie Cuffe (Faculty of Law,
Queensland University of Technology) - Web Based Project
Management for Research Students in Law [Short]
Parallel 4B Finding the Law: Catalogs, Pathways, and Evaluations
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12:05pm Benny Tai (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) -
LawOf: The Development of an Open Online Legal Index
12:30pm Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown
2:00pm Sue Walden (Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC),
State Library of NSW) - The LIAC Pathway: A Methodology
for Developing Understanding about the Law
2:25pm Colin Fong (ATAX, UNSW) - Assessing Free Legal Websites:
The Good, the Not So Good and the Doable
Parallel 4C Social Impact of Access to Legal Information
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2:50pm Lorna McKenzie, Suzanne Crowle, Don Jones, Jamie Murray
and Douglas Jordan (Office of Industrial Relations, NSW)
- Check Your Pay: Online Assistance in Award
Calculations
3:15pm Friedrich Schwank (Austria) - Cyberdocs and e-
Government: Electronic Archive of Austrian Notaries
3:40pm Afternoon Tea
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